Chinese poetry. An anthology, by Christine Kontler: a unique breath

Masterful, splendid, surprising, these are the first words that come to mind when leafing through this imposing anthology of classical Chinese poetry, abundantly illustrated, where one could spend hours. Sinologist Christine Kontler, former student of François Cheng, author of Ways of wisdom. Buddhism and Asian religions and of Chinese Art. A cultural historyoffers us in a ceciladon green box a vast chronological panorama with a look back over two thousand years of 150 classic poems with nearly 300 painted works, since the 11th^e century BC. She establishes a dialogue and correspondences between the two forms of art, writing and painting, establishing a “conversation which never interrupts between the text and the image, ranging from the most conventional association to the most distant or unexpected allusion”.

The choice of illustrations, mainly inks and colors on silk or paper, scrolls…